[NTLUG:Discuss] basic sendmail question/help

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>From: MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>
>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org

>
>first, I would make sure you are checking the mail on both machines.
>Alias root (in /etc/aliases) to an account you check regularly, that way
>when something bounces you get the notice and you can work from those
>cluse (you may have already done this, I am just thinking outloud).
>
>How are you trying to test this?  Are you sending something via sendmail
>command line or through a client?

Do you mean
command line like this:
aaa>mail xxx at bbb.my.com
subject: ...
and through a client like using elm or pine?
I did try both ways. none of then works.


>Have you seen any bounced messages?
>
I did see bounced message. (I assume bounced message is the mail message 
sent by mail deamon, which include the orginal message, right?)



>Check your mail que with 'mailq' and see if there are any messages there 
>and what the messages are.  If you try to send it via command line, you may 
>get an idea of why it isn't working (maybe).  If you aren't sure what I 
>mean, let me know.
>
yep. there are messages (mails) there which are I tried to send.
the follow is what I got from mailq from A box. as you can see here, I try 
send mail from root and user xxx at A box to user yyy at B box.
the first three message sent from command line ( > mail yyy at bbb...)
the rest of then from pine. similar result from B box.

root at aaa /root]# mailq
		Mail Queue (8 requests)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- -----------Sender/Recipient------------
OAA00896       20 Sat Sep 11 14:34 root
                 (host map: lookup (bbb.my.com): deferred)
				   yyy at bbb.my.com
OAA00924       30 Sat Sep 11 14:42 root
                 (host map: lookup (bbb.my.com): deferred)
				   yyy at bbb.my.com
OAA00926       21 Sat Sep 11 14:43 root
                 (host map: lookup (bbb.my.com): deferred)
				   yyy at bbb.my.com
NAA00780       17 Thu Sep  9 13:22 <xxx at aaa.my.com>
                 (Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours)
				   <yyy at bbb.my.com>
MAA00797       17 Thu Sep  9 12:59 <xxx at aaa.my.com>
                 (Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours)
				   <yyy at bbb.my.com>
MAB00777       18 Thu Sep  9 12:54 <root at aaa.my.com>
                 (Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours)
				   <yyy at bbb.my.com>
MAA00777       17 Thu Sep  9 12:44 <root at aaa.my.com>
                 (Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours)
				   <yyy at bbb.my.com>
PAA00818      260 Mon Sep  6 15:52 <root at aaa.my.com>
                 (host map: lookup (bbb.my.com): deferred)
				   <yyy at bbb.my.com>

>Ummmm......  I will keep thinking about it.

Thank you for your help.


jc

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